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FCE ReadingYou are going to read an article about the loss of Bees. Eight sentences have been removed from thearticle. Choose from the sentences a-I the one that best fits each gap (1-8). There is one extrasentence which you do not need to use.

New Findings About Loss of Bees

Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars MICKAEL HENRY: "Intoxicated honeybeesa year to the value of American crops. They with those small doses may just get lost andpollinate flowers that become fruits, nuts and are not able to find their way back home."vegetables. 1 ________ Scientists haveproposed different theories to explain what is For some crops around the world, 5 ______known as colony collapse disorder. Dave Goulson at the University of Sterling in Britain worked on another study published inNew research suggests that a commonly used Science. He says the pesticides could helpgroup of insecticides could cause bees to have explain why bumblebee populations are alsoa hard time finding their way back to their decreasing.hive. DAVE GOULSON: "There were eighty-fiveThe new research looks at the use of percent fewer queens produced when they’dpesticides called neonicotinoids. They were been exposed to realistic field levels."first used in the nineteen nineties. 2 _____The seedlings absorb the chemical as they Bayer CropScience makes neonicotinoidgrow. pesticides. 6 ________.

That means farmers do not need to spray a JACK BOYNE: "Instead of dosing thewhole field. Instead there is a little bit of animals at field-relevant concentrations as theinsecticide inside each plant -- including the authors intended, 7 _______."pollen and nectar that the bees want. He also notes that researchers are studying3 ______ But the new research in the journal other factors that could affect bee populations.Science says it may harm them anyway. 8 ______________

Researchers stuck microchips to the backs of Some European countries have banned thethe bees. These chips recorded the bees' pesticides. And there are growing calls to banmovements as they came and went from their them in the United States as well.hive. 4 ________ The study found that thesebees were about twice as likely not to return asother bees.

Mickael Henry from INRA, the French

national agriculture research institute, says thebees basically get drunk.